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    Have you ever wanted to live in a world the could be considered “perfect” or made up your own little world in you head in which everyone is the same, hunger is never an issue, equality exists, no crimes, or conflicts, and best of all, no bad memories? In Lois Lowry's book, The Giver, Jonas and his family, along with the rest of their community, they live in a utopia like society where everyone has the same rules, there are no important choices they have to make, there’s no war, pain or conflict,…

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    A utopia is an idea of a perfect society, meaning everyone lives in peace and harmony. Unlike the book, Ready Player One, by Ernest Cline, which is based off of a dystopian society where people are selfish and degrading of everything and everyone. Based on the future, the book was lived through a virtual video game called OASIS where anything and everything is possible unlike the real world that he is scared to face. This game is his way of escaping the prison like schools and unstable economy…

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    Compare living in a utopian society as Huxley described it in the World State with life where drugs are part of their everyday life which controlled your emotions and freedoms. Aldous Huxley play’s with the idea of a dramatically dystopian society where drugs greatly inspired by government to hold control over person destiny. Brave New World was written by Aldous Huxley in 1932. The novel takes place in a dystopian world, in and around the London area. The general argument made by the Huxley’s…

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    decides to look more into these children his grandfather always talked about, combing through his old archives, discovering many crucial pieces that all corresponded to one place, a children's home in a small island off of England and a date of September 3d 1940. Curious, he leaves for the island and discovers a wrecked childrens home when he arrives. Jacob stumbles along and finds himself at that very children's home now in pristine condition,…

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    Our humanity predicates on the principle that individuals’ freedom and originality coexist adamantly with different human beings’ relations and uniqueness, yet we often ostracize human beings’ individuality. Similarly, we can adversely pinpoint how our society’s persistent conformity to one ideal of a human being relates to the Utopian society’s conformity of individuality presented in Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World. We divulge the inhumane isolation of humane emotions in the novel, yet we are…

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    Trip To A Trip Essay

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    Trip to Hundred Islands In the summer of my third grade, when I was eight years old, I remembered when my parents told me that we were going to take a trip to Hundred Islands National Park in Pangasinan, Philippines. I said “ Are you being serious?” I was shocked, but excited when they told me. I couldn’t sleep that night, I was too hyped and thrilled. I thought it was quite spontaneous of them to decided to go to this trip since they were so occupied with work. The night before, I researched…

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    Inis Beag Analysis

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    and the Montserrat islanders of the West indies whom you studied in 1965 and 1967” (Messenger v). The island of Inis Beag as referred to in the book by John C. Messenger is located off the coast of the Connemara in Ireland where the people are Irish Catholics who traditionally speak the Gaelic…

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    Inis Beag Summary

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    Inis Beag: Isles of Ireland The ethnography, Inis Beag: Isles of Ireland, was written by John C. Messenger in May 1969 and expresses in detail the culture of Inis Beag island. John C. Messenger was a “Professor in the Department of Anthropology the Folklore Institution in the program of African Studies at Indiana University. He received his Ph.D. from Northwestern University. Publishes numerous articles, chapters in books and monographs concerning the cultures of the Anang, the Irish, and the…

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    In Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World, Huxley shows a new world which has changed the way the reader thinks of the use of technology. Huxley uses the invention of the assembly line throughout his writing to show how every citizen of society was created. Society has changed drastically according to Huxley and can be seen in each of his characters as their view of life has changed from a previous time. Technologies influence can be seen through of Huxley’s characters Linda and John. Both of these…

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    INTRODUCTION What is a utopia? A utopia is “an imaginary place in which the government, laws, and social conditions are perfect” (Merriam Webster ). It is human nature to desire and dream of living in such a place, where everything is in perfect order with abundant food resources, companions, and equality. Yet, it is also human nature to become self-centered and covetous, which corrupts our minds and leads us to chaos. On this account, achieving a utopic society in the real world is hardly…

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